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Back at Victor's lab after Morana's escape

After Victor finished explaining Morana's situation to de Lavals only Leonie and Amalia were left in the room, and the room became scarily quiet, but this silence was soon disturbed by Leonie.

"You seem different." He said while looking at Victor with curiosity.

Victor remained silent but Amalia couldn't help but ask Leonie.

"Different? What do you mean?"

At this moment Leonie was still looking at Victor trying to understand what was going on. He didn't answer Amalia's question but instead spoke to Victor.

"Different like how you used to be before you changed and started unreasonably hunting me."

His words caught others' attention in the room as well.

"It's because I am different." Said Victor. "I have a rare moment of clarity right now, but I don't know how long that will last." 

Victor's explanation surprised not only Leonie but others as well.

After that, the group discussed some more and came into some kind of mutual agreement that only they knew.

***

Back to the present 

Leonie looked at the man coming out of the bathroom and the next second realization hit him.

"You are back for good right?"

Victor looked at Leonie and then nodded his head.

"Hmm. I have full control of my body now and all my memories are back and crystal clear."

"Good, now we won't have to worry about you turning into a murderous mad scientist." Said Leonie with relief.

At this moment Amalia also walked into the room.

"What happened? Your shout was heard in the whole inn." She couldn't help but look at Victor with her guard up.

"He's back." Said, Leonie.

Amalia couldn't help showing a rare bewildered expression at this as she once again stared at Victor.

"Like fully back?"

"Yes, Dr. Corbin I am fully in control of my body now." Said Victor.

Amalia and Leonie couldn't help but notice the change in Victor's addressing towards Amalia, but the most surprising part was the way he addressed her.

"You… how?"

"I was in 'base zero' as a child." Said Victor and immediately Amalia's gaze turned into pity.

She couldn't help feeling conflicted, she once hated this man to death, later after knowing he couldn't control his body seeing as he could help find her daughter she just decided to be unfeeling but now that she knows he was in 'base zero' as a child she couldn't help feeling pity and even feeling a little guilt.

After all, she was one of the reasons 'base zero' existed in the first place. She hated Victor for what happened to her daughter, even after knowing it wasn't really him she still couldn't help but blame him in her heart but now after knowing that she was partially responsible for all of that she couldn't help feeling conflicted.

Victor saw right through her and decided to speak first.

"It's not your fault what happened back there. Even without the base would still exist, moreover, you were also a victim."

Amalia looked at Victor gratefully after hearing his words, but she still couldn't get rid of the guilt? How could she forget what these people did? How could she forget her poor daughters?

No, she can't. Never, and one day she would go back and make those bastards that are hiding in the Zodiac continent pay with their blood.

Both Victor and Leonie felt her hatred and bloodlust and couldn't help but sigh helplessly.

Well, Amalia wasn't the only one that wanted blood, after all, the other two also had a deep hatred towards the 'base zero', so. The three people tacitly remembered to clear this debt later.

Just as Amalia came back to reality and wanted to ask Victor more questions Simon hurriedly entered the room.

"Master, not good."

Seeing his expression, all three knew that something bad happened.

"What happened?" Asked Leonie.

"Miss, and young master Zoel, they are in danger. Something is wrong with the secret realm."

"What? What happened?" Asked Amalia as they hurriedly started moving towards the secret realm entrance.

"The entrance started emitting a large amount of dark and poisonous mana, at first it was insignificant, but now it had become denser and it started to affect everything around." Said Simon as the four were running.

"How did this happen?" Even Victor couldn't help but follow his brows feeling that the situation was dangerous.

Soon all four felt the strong suffocating feeling coming from the dense dark mana and couldn't help but worry even more.

When they arrived they saw the place they stood not long ago while sending Zoel and his friends in the secret realm were now covered in the dark fog. 

Other people were also here, Amalia and Leonie even recognized some people from the upper realm they have had contact with before.

"The fog is advancing once again, retread." 

Suddenly someone shouted and sure enough, the fog started to expand its premises quickly. Some people didn't expect this development and were caught in the fog. The next second others heard heart-wrenching screams coming from within.

About 8 minutes later the fog finally stopped expanding but not before it killed three people.

Faced with the situation, Amalia's and Leonie's worries also reached their peak, but thankfully they heard Victor's voice the next second.

"Don't worry, they're fine. Their life stones are still intact, which means they are alive, what we need now is to calm down and understand the situation before we can help them."

Victor's calmness also managed to calm their raging hearts and they managed to concentrate on the problem at hand.

He was right worrying wouldn't help their children and they needed to be clear headed now.

"Retreat." Once again the screams were heard as the fog started expanding but Leonie and Amalia were calm they knew what they needed to do.

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